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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Fear Philosophy
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
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Absence Courage Fear Important
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Accident Planning Politics Way
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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Bad Economics Interest Moral
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
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Clear Eyes Forest Government Pollution School
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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Expert Number Opinion
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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Oneself Stand Still Way
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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Play Remember Worth Yourself
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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Attack Design Justice Oppression Ourselves Remember
The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
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Administration Leadership Moral Office Place President
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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Failure Method Try
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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Belief Better Beyond Hope Horizon World
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
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Democracy Government Master Ourselves People Service
The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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Democracy Education Reality Safety
Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
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Death Destruction Force Naked Possible Rule War
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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Choice Democracy Education Expression Safety Success
Presidents are selected, not elected.
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Election Politics President Selection
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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Doubt Limitation Ourselves
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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Acceptance Democracy Fundamental Minority Recognition Right Survive
The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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Death Peace Strong Survive War Weakness
The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
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Feeling Lonely Opinion Public Thinking World
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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Bitter Maturity Myself Politics Thinking
To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
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Expectation Generation Material Wealth
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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One Liner Short Sincere
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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People Right Vote Way Yourself
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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Death Enjoyment Man Privilege Win
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
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Character Democracy Freedom Oneself Unity

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